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Rove McManus
File:Rove.jpg
BornJohn McManus II
(1974-01-21) January 21, 1974 (age 50)
Perth, W.A., Australia
Occupation(s)Television presenter
Comedian
Radio host
Producer
Height173cm (5.68 ft)
Spouse(s)Belinda Emmett (Deceased)
(2005–2006)
Websitewww.rovedaily.com.au

John "Rove" McManus (born January 21, 1974) is a multi Gold Logie Award winning Australian variety show host, and owner of the production company Roving Enterprises.

Personal life

Born John McManus II in Perth, Western Australia to John and Coralie McManus, McManus grew up in the suburb of Riverton and attended Orana Catholic Primary School and Corpus Christi College, Bateman. He moved to Melbourne to pursue a career as a stand up comedian in the early 1990's. In July 2004 he announced his engagement to his girlfriend of five years, Australian actress Belinda Emmett. They married on 29 January 2005 at the Mary Immaculate Church in Waverley, a suburb in the east of Sydney. Emmett died of cancer on 11 November 2006 at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, New South Wales.

As of October 2007, McManus is dating former Blue Heelers actress Tasma Walton.

Career

Television

McManus worked as a scanner/digital painter on the animated television series Lil' Elvis and the Truckstoppers (1996). He hosted The Loft Live on community television station Channel 31 and subsequently landed ten late night episodes of his own tonight show, Rove, on GTV9 in 1999. Channel Nine cancelled the series at the end of its run. The Ten Network offered McManus another ten episodes of his show in late 2000. The resulting Rove Live became a weekly talk show on Network Ten, and is broadcast on TV3 in New Zealand. The show involves celebrity guests, comedy acts, variety segments, local and international comedians and live bands.

McManus started his own production company, Roving Enterprises in 2000 and has co-produced Rove Live since its inception. The company has produced a number of other programs including the sketch comedy program Skithouse, comedy show Real Stories and AFL football program, Before The Game. Roving Enterprises has also produced the ARIA Music Awards since 2002, hosted by McManus until 2004. McManus undertook a live solo stand-up comedy show in 2005, touring Australian capital cities as well as Wellington and Auckland in New Zealand. During the tour, he was still returning to Melbourne each Tuesday to film Rove Live. In 2004, he had a fatwa placed on him by John Safran in an episode of John Safran vs God, for dropping Safran's scheduled appearance on Rove Live. It was later removed. He also unsuccessfully campaigned to have Australian Prime Minister John Howard appear on his program during the 2004 and 2007 federal elections, but he did get the opposition leaders Mark Latham (2004) and Kevin Rudd (2007) to appear.

On the 25 October 2005 episode, Rove Live had a segment that Rove himself deemed "controversial" when it aired a live TV vasectomy. For the season finale, he offered six cars as prizes on his show. After falling viewing figures, the show was revamped for 2006, with the first episode of the new show airing on 14 February. In 2005, his long time supporting presenter, Corinne Grant, left the show. In her place, comedian Meshel Laurie joined the key presenters team.

In November 2006 Rove's career was put on hold indefinitely. His weekly show Rove Live did not screen its last two planned episodes of the year, due to the death of his wife Belinda Emmett. At the time there were rumours circulating in the media and industry that he might quit TV for good. After 173 episodes the show appeared to be over. However, it was announced in the media on 8 March 2007 that Rove would return with a new show on the Ten Network. The host returned to television in the competitive 8.30pm Sunday timeslot, which commenced 1 April 2007 with a major format overhaul on the old Rove Live, including renaming the show to simply Rove. Rove returned to TV on 1 April 2007 prominently, as he scored his highest ever audience of 1.69 million viewers. In September 2007, McManus made his début as a game show host in the Australian version of the US game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?.

Radio

In 1999 he was a regular host on Triple J radio. He had a segment on the breakfast show (starring Wil Anderson and Adam Spencer) on Friday mornings, Know Your Millennium, a quiz show that looked into the past. In 2002 the Austereo radio network commissioned Roving Enterprises to create a weekly radio program. Starring McManus alongside regular TV colleagues Peter Helliar and Corinne Grant, the show was originally called Saturday Morning Rove. Broadcast from Fox FM every Saturday from 10AM to Midday, it was actually pre-recorded the day before to allow the performers to have a full weekend of media commitments. In 2004 the program moved to Friday mornings allowing live phone callers, and was re-titled Rove Live Radio and had a style similar to Rove Live. It was discontinued at the end of 2004. In 2006, Rove and Pete filled in for Merrick and Rosso while they were holidays, in the first week of their three week stint Meshel Laurie of Nova 106.9 co-hosted the show as well.

Awards

In 2002, he was nominated for the Gold Logie Award and Rove Live won the Logie for Most Popular Light Entertainment Program. In 2003, McManus won three Logies: Most Popular TV Presenter, Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Program and the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television. In 2004 and 2005 he repeated his 2003 award haul, and in 2006 he won Most Popular TV Presenter. In 2007 McManus won Most Popular TV Presenter and Most Popular Light Entertainment Program for Rove Live.

Trivia

This article contains a list of miscellaneous information. Please relocate any relevant information into other sections or articles. (August 2007)

References

  1. "Belinda Emmett dead at 32". news.com.au. 2006-11-11. Retrieved 2007-09-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. "Rove 'holding up well' as thousands mourn Belinda". ninemsn. 2006-11-13. Retrieved 2007-09-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. Rove McManus finds new love with Tasma Walton - The Daily Telegraph, 25 Oct 2007
  4. "Facts". Rove Online. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
  5. Darren Devlyn and Marcus Casey (2007-03-08). "Rove back in harness". Herald Sun. Retrieved 2007-09-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. "Kate Ritchie wins gold at Logies". ninemsn. 2007-05-07. Retrieved 2007-09-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. "Second half TV line-ups revealed". ninemsn. 2007-06-26. Retrieved 2007-09-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. "Rove in Leno's hot seat". The Daily Telegraph. 2007-04-28. Retrieved 2007-09-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. "Rove's US Hopes Take a Dive". Sydney Morning Herald. 2007-07-31. Retrieved 2007-10-08. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

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Preceded byGeorgie Parker Gold Logie Award winner
2003 - 2005 		Succeeded byJohn Wood
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